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Christa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-07-07 07:24 AM
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Please help to protest internet censorship and keep the net free.
A bit of googling demonstrates that many of the leading republican candidates now support Net censorship (including govt. blog moderation), and limiting Net access to the public. McCain, who on occasion tries to pass himself off as a moderate, has gone on record as being in favor of a censored Net (in other words, a Net comprised of only corporate sites). Skeptics and atheists, especially, should be opposed to blog censorship and concerned with preserving Net access. Indeed even big name "liberal" sites now engage in rather severe forms of moderation (banning, deletion, censorship, etc.). The authentic liberal protests censorship in all of its forms.



""Among people who have learned something from the 18th century (say, Voltaire) it is a truism, hardly deserving discussion, that the defense of the right of free expression is not restricted to ideas one approves of, and that it is precisely in the case of ideas found most offensive that these rights must be most vigorously defended.""" (Noam Chomsky)

Please sign this petition to keep the internet free.

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